Wednesday, April 22, 2015

According to numerous Arab media sources, an internal US State Department report, details the names and professions of the major donors to τhe Islamic State and the Jihadist factions in Syria and Iraq.

A hundred years ago this week, as British and French troops were
bogged down facing Germany on the western front of World War I, the
Kaiser's ally in the east, the Turkish Ottoman Caliphate, was preparing
for a new kind of war.
A war of extermination.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Ethnic Albanian Kosovar Lavdrim Muhaxheri appears in an IS video calling on Albanian Muslims to join militants fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.At least 232 Kosovo citizens are fighting alongside militants in Syria and Iraq, making Kosovo rank eighth overall (and first per capita) among the 22 Western states with citizens fighting in Syria and Iraq, a new report has found.

Friday, April 17, 2015

I came across an interesting article on MEMO concerning Kosovo (Albanian) stance towards ISIS/IDIL, since ‘Kosovo’ is as local Albanians claim ‘the youngest republic in Europe’, which unilateraly proclaimed itself to be independent of Serbia in 2008.

Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) is the top source of fighters in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and other Islamic states with 125 fighters per million citizens, and it is followed by Bosnia-Herzegovina with 85 persons, shows a report by the Kosovo Center for Security Studies (KCSS).

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The data on foreign fighters from Italy recently released by the Italian institutions raised to 59 the number of individuals who left the country to join jihadists in Syria and Iraq: among them only 5 have Italian passports, while 2 have dual citizenship.